Comprehensive low-cost reliability centered maintenance. Final report

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:150931

Rotton, S J; Dozier, I J; Thow, R ^[1]

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1. Erin Engineering and Research, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA (United States); and others

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a maintenance optimization approach that all electric utilities can apply to power plant systems. The Electric Power Research Institute and PECO Energy Company jointly sponsored this Comprehensive Low-Cost Reliability Centered Maintenance project to demonstrate that the standard RCM methodology could be streamlined to reduce the cost of analysis while maintaining a high quality product. EPRI`s previous investigation of streamlined RCM methods being pioneered in the nuclear industry indicated that PECO Energy could expect to optimize its maintenance program at reduced cost by carefully controlling the scope without sacrificing documentation or technical quality. Using the insights obtained from these previous studies, three methods were defined in this project and were demonstrated in a large scale application to 60 systems at both the Limerick Generating Station and the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Erin Engineering and Research, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 150931
• Report Number(s): EPRI-TR--105365
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
LIMERICK-1 REACTOR
LIMERICK-2 REACTOR
MAINTENANCE
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
PEACH BOTTOM-2 REACTOR
PEACH BOTTOM-3 REACTOR
RELIABILITY